Julian Assange’s family is working out of the US to fight his extradition, beseeching lawmakers there for help ahead of a looming meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Joe Bide
Julian Assange’s family is working out of the United States to fight his extradition, beseeching lawmakers there for help ahead of a looming meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Joe Biden.
“Over the years if you go and visit him, you can see the deterioration in him personally and physically.“It is his fifth year in prison now ... He’s been held there solely at the request of the US regarding this extradition. It’s this sort of endless, endless punishment that’s just wearing him down.”
A full-page advertisement, signed by 64 Australian parliamentarians, calling for an end to Assange’s prosecution and incarceration, appeared in theGabriel Shipton said he had been meeting with politicians across the US political divide. US Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green meets with Labor MP Tony Zappia, former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, teal independent Monique Ryan, Liberals’ Alex Antic, and Greens senators David Shoebridge and Peter Whish-Wilson.The bipartisan group also included former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, Liberal senator Alex Antic, Labor MP Tony Zappia and Greens senators Peter Whish-Wilson and David Shoebridge.
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